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Hungarian-born French Romantic composer and virtuoso pianist, renowned for his elegant character pieces and influential études.Stephen Heller, born in Pest, Hungary, showed prodigious talent early, studying piano locally and later in Vienna. Financial hardship forced concert tours throughout Europe. Settling permanently in Paris in 1838, he became a central figure in its musical life, befriending luminaries like Chopin, Berlioz, and Liszt....